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Line 6: − + − + + + − − This quote is sometimes used to assert Hoyle's belief in Intelligent Design. However, Hoyle was not just a life-long atheist but positively anti-theistic<ref> see "Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science (Simon Mitton, Joseph Henry Press, 2005) and "How is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist;s Life" (Fred Hoyle, University Science, 1994)</ref>; instead of accepting a Divine hand in things, he proposed a ''deus ex machina'' alien intervention<ref> see "Evolution from Space: a Theory of Cosmic Creationism (Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Simon and Schuster, 1984)</ref> more in keeping with one of his many science fiction novels <ref>http://www.hoyle.org.uk/FH/Fiction.html</ref> than with faith and logic.
Not even Wikipedia would say that anyone was using this quote to assert Hoyle's belief in Intelligent Design
In 1983 the [[Nobel Prize]] committee insulted Hoyle by passing him over and giving the award to underlings for his work. "For ... one of the greatest intellectual triumphs of modern physics, he was ignored by the Nobel Prize committee which chose to reward others who had done lesser work in this field. Thus, the scientific establishment, which claims to seek truth dispassionately, treated one of its finest proponents with contempt."<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/jul/24/biography.features1, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/03/fred-hoyle-nobel-prize</ref> In the same year Hoyle had exposed that the [[Archaeopteryx]] - then a favorite of promoters of [[evolution]] - was a fraud. Several years earlier, Hoyle had also condemned the exclusion of [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] from the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics.
In 1983 the [[Nobel Prize]] committee insulted Hoyle by passing him over and giving the award to underlings for his work. "For ... one of the greatest intellectual triumphs of modern physics, he was ignored by the Nobel Prize committee which chose to reward others who had done lesser work in this field. Thus, the scientific establishment, which claims to seek truth dispassionately, treated one of its finest proponents with contempt."<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/jul/24/biography.features1, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/03/fred-hoyle-nobel-prize</ref> In the same year Hoyle had exposed that the [[Archaeopteryx]] - then a favorite of promoters of [[evolution]] - was a fraud. Several years earlier, Hoyle had also condemned the exclusion of [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] from the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics.
==Nucleosythesis==
==Stellar nucleosynthesis==
By 1946 Hoyle had formulated the original and still generally accepted idea that the elements are generated in evolving stars and injected into the interstellar medium by [[supernova]] explosions. In 1957 he collaborated with William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge and Geoffrey Burbidge on an epoch-making paper on the nucleosynthesis of elements in stars.<ref>http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FHoyle</ref>
By 1946 Hoyle had formulated the original and still generally accepted idea that the elements are generated in evolving stars and injected into the interstellar medium by [[supernova]] explosions. In 1957 he collaborated with William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge and Geoffrey Burbidge on an epoch-making paper on the nucleosynthesis of elements in stars.<ref>http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FHoyle</ref>
==The anthropic principle==
==Origin of life==
Hoyle, a life-long atheist, was positively anti-theistic<ref> see "Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science (Simon Mitton, Joseph Henry Press, 2005) and "How is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist;s Life" (Fred Hoyle, University Science, 1994)</ref>; instead of accepting a Divine hand in things, he proposed a ''deus ex machina'' alien intervention<ref> see "Evolution from Space: a Theory of Cosmic Creationism (Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Simon and Schuster, 1984)</ref> more in keeping with one of his many science fiction novels <ref>http://www.hoyle.org.uk/FH/Fiction.html</ref> than with faith and logic.
{{quotebox|"The likelihood (probability) of the [[spontaneous generation|spontaneous formation]] of life from inanimate matter is one to number with 40,000 noughts after it... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole [[theory of evolution]]. There was no [[primeval soup]], neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence." Sir Fredrick Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), p. 148. <ref>http://www.discoveryevent.com/quotes1.htm</ref>}}
{{quotebox|"The likelihood (probability) of the [[spontaneous generation|spontaneous formation]] of life from inanimate matter is one to number with 40,000 noughts after it... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole [[theory of evolution]]. There was no [[primeval soup]], neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence." Sir Fredrick Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), p. 148. <ref>http://www.discoveryevent.com/quotes1.htm</ref>}}
==References==
==References==